Jerry Buss, owner of the Lakers and the Kings, and Bruce McNall, minority owner of the Kings, were considering buying the San Diego Padres, primarily as a source of programming for Buss' cable network, Prime Ticket.
Of the 3,336 sales or mergers of companies or parts of companies that took place in the United States last year, 150 were done by tender offer to shareholders.
The Federal Reserve, which has helped push interest rates down to the lowest levels of this decade
The Treasury Department sold $7.6 billion in three-month bills at an average discount rate of 5.68%, up from 5.49% last week.
The Treasury Department sold $7.4 billion in new three-month bills at an average discount rate of 5.99%, down from 6.09% last week.
Interest rate futures prices declined steeply Tuesday, reflecting a growing conviction that the
The Treasury Department sold $5.5 billion in three-month bills an average discount rate of 5.60%, down from 5.70% last week.
The Small Business Administration declared the city a disaster area Thursday, six weeks after an early-morning blaze raced through a large apartment complex and left 256 residents without shelter.
Rates on the Treasury securities rose slightly to levels in effect at the beginning of the month.
In 1944, a 15-year-old Boy Scout named George Fawcett read a news story about "silver balls floating in the air" that the Nazis apparently planned to use to confuse and frighten the Allies during bombing raids.
Peter Werrlein Jr., a former mayor of Bell, was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison and fined $21,000 for holding hidden interests in that city's poker casino.
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dissident shareholder Jona Goldrich, said Tuesday that it has a sold a 9.9% interest to Financial
Financial Corp. of America, parent company of American Savings & Loan Assn., said it has reached an agreement with Salomon Bros. and a subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co. to create a so-called whole-loan repurchase credit facility.
hits in the United States, has attracted only lukewarm interest in the country where it was filmed.
It was with great fanfare that a panel of Democrats last February announced legislation to curb high credit card interest rates.
If it's Tuesday, students at Lincoln Elementary School are on their way to the "bank."
The Treasury Department sold $7 billion in new three-month bills at an average discount rate of 5.86%, up from 5.84% last week.
The Treasury Department sold $7 billion in new three-month bills at an average discount rate of 6.08%, up from 5.86% last week.
Interest-rate worries kept the stock market on the defensive Monday, although a few blue chips managed a modest rally.